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Making the Vortex Mixer
The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab.
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The Column
Issue 09
Making the Vortex Mixer
Words by
Ella Watkins-Dulaney
The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab.
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The Column
Issue 09
A Brief History of Xenopus
Words by
Matt Lubin
From early experiments on fertility and embryonic development to becoming the first cloned eukaryote from an adult cell, Xenopus frogs have had an outsized influence on the life sciences.
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Long Read
Issue 09
What It's Like To Be A Worm
Words by
Ralph Stefan Weir
Finding evidence of “sentience” is fraught, whether in a comatose patient, an animal, or a neural net.
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Long Read
Issue 09
Building Brains on a Computer
Words by
Max Schons
A roadmap for brain emulation models at the human scale.
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The Column
Issue 09
Solving the Electroporation Bottleneck
Words by
Niko McCarty
Cultivarium, a focused research organization, has built a custom electroporator to engineer non-model organisms at scale.
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The Column
Issue 09
Why Do Research Institutes Often Look the Same?
Words by
Samuel Arbesman
Despite attempts at variation, many new research organizations are canalized into just a handful of forms.
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